Friday, May 21, 2010

Fordham CIO Roundtable: Global CIO survey (May 19th, 2010)

Marianne Cooper from IBM presented the findings of IBM's Global CIO Study, based on interviews of more than 2500 CIOs across multiple countries and industries.

The study identified profiles of CIOs like "insightful visionary" and "able pragmatist". Leveraging data and analytics across all business areas is a great opportunity and the top priority for CIOs. Other priorities are (a) Virtualization and Cloud computing, (b) Risk management and compliance, (c) Mobility. Centralization and standardization is another trend.

A more general lesson for CIOs is to proactively reach out to the business to co-create and champion innovation. Maybe the greatest untapped opportunity for tech leaders is to show the business side what is possible.

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